James Dickson

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2,171 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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Event Industry News Podcast · Beyond Footfall: Inside Exposure Analytics' Physical Engagement Index · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

are to the pandemic itself. voice-verified

And without sort of blowing smoke, I see reports and the work that you guys are doing with reports like this and other organisations doing with their own reporting in the industry as being critical because that 10 years on from 2020, now we get to 2030, I think there's going to be a lot of really, really good data available to see just how far we've progressed in that decade. voice-verified

Well, we've seen that, haven't we? voice-verified

I know I was working in the Middle East in February, and I left the Middle East after a job there three weeks before things started to kick off, basically, over there. voice-verified

And within a couple of weeks, I was seeing emails and getting messages from people saying, oh, that event in... voice-verified

you know, Saudi Arabia has been cancelled. voice-verified

That event in Qatar has been cancelled. voice-verified

That one in the UAE has been cancelled. voice-verified

And we're talking sort of serious, you know, big multi-million, multi-billion pound events for international industries being, you know, shelved and put on the back burner. voice-verified

Some postponed, some cancelled completely. voice-verified

And I think sometimes we underestimate just how much business and how much, how big an impact voice-verified

it will have on the industry, the geopolitical aspects, as you alluded to. voice-verified

Yeah, absolutely. voice-verified

It'll be fascinating to watch. voice-verified

And it only occurred to me recently that the thing that I mentioned about the pandemic, the sort of the, you know, we are closer to being a decade on from it to itself. voice-verified

And yet, you know, we still... voice-verified

reference that period of time we still reference the fact that you know it showed us just how much people wanted to be face to face and be in physical events and in some respects we don't need to say that anymore i think everybody accepts that that is the case what we need to do is move on and use tools like this you know your your analytical tools and and and other organizations out there to really voice-verified

break down some of this information. voice-verified

I think one thing that's happened pre-pandemic, post-pandemic, sorry, is not necessarily the improvement of event technology, but the way that we use it and understand it. voice-verified

I think there almost seems to be that there was a tech industry in the events marketplace pre-pandemic, voice-verified

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